{"id":1485,"date":"2011-01-09T03:06:56","date_gmt":"2011-01-09T03:06:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=1485"},"modified":"2011-01-09T03:06:56","modified_gmt":"2011-01-09T03:06:56","slug":"cool-ching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=1485","title":{"rendered":"Cool Ching!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/kucb2.jpg\"><br \/>\nRewind to 12th to 15th July 2008, when I was down in Kuching for the Rainforest World Music Festival 2008!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/kucb1.jpg\"><br \/>\nI&#8217;m on a boat! Uh&#8230; boat.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/kucb4.jpg\"><br \/>\nI&#8217;m on a bus! I saw this tree too many times.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/kucb6.jpg\"><br \/>\nKuching is literally the land of cats!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/kucb3.jpg\"><br \/>\nFunny thing is, they have really cool garbage trucks that have automated slot loaders&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/kucb7.jpg\"><br \/>\n&#8230;but there is only one cinema in town, and the tickets are manually written! (The show? <b>Wanted<\/b>.)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/kucb5.jpg\"><br \/>\n<b>Left<\/b>: Finally found tuak, pretty sweet stuff! <b>Right<\/b>: My Minolta 70-210mm F4 beercan next to tin cans in the beercan form factor.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/kucb13.jpg\"><br \/>\nOn to the <b>Sarawak Cultural Village<\/b>! Scary stairs made of trees.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/kucb9.jpg\"><br \/>\nThey had many houses showing you what each culture was into.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/kucb8.jpg\"><br \/>\nUp in one of the attics.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/kucb10.jpg\"><br \/>\nYeah, he looks wooden.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/kucb11.jpg\"><br \/>\nThe Sarawak Cultural Village is a nice place to just chill and get in touch with nature. See even Yoda likes it!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/kucb12.jpg\"><br \/>\nTall, tall, tall houses!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/kucb15.jpg\"><br \/>\nThen we snuck over to the Damai beach.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/kucb16.jpg\"><br \/>\nIt was pretty much empty except for this girl&#8230; until a guard came over and asked where we were staying.<\/p>\n<p>So I made up something about staying with Noel and that I&#8217;d forgot my pass.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/kucb17.jpg\"><br \/>\nAnd suddenly, Noel appeared out of nowhere! (Well, after the guard left.)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/kucb14.jpg\"><br \/>\nWaifon&#8217;s pet turtle.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/kucb19.jpg\"><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kennysia.com\" target=\"_BLANK\">Kenny Sia<\/a> tugging on my hair. Wow it still had highlights then!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/kucb18.jpg\"><br \/>\nAnother spy shot of the couple he spy-shot from afar.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/kucb22.jpg\"><br \/>\nSigh advertisement-pimpin&#8217; bloggers!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/kucb20.jpg\"><br \/>\nCoca Cola.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/kucb21.jpg\"><br \/>\nRoxy-Quiksilver!<\/p>\n<p>More here:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/?p=1201\">Rain For Us<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/?p=1112\">Sunny East Side<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rewind to 12th to 15th July 2008, when I was down in Kuching for the Rainforest World Music Festival 2008! I&#8217;m on a boat! Uh&#8230; boat. I&#8217;m on a bus! I saw this tree too many times. Kuching is literally the land of cats! Funny thing is, they have really cool garbage trucks that have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pictures","category-travelling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}